Meet our speakers, who are active leaders in the T.I.M.E. (Technology, Information, Media, Entertainment) areas.
Mikel Maron
President, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team /
Co-director, Ground Truth Initiative
MARON, Mikel
President, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Codirector, Ground Truth Initiative
Mikel Maron is a programmer and geographer working for impactful community and humanitarian uses of open source and open data. He is co-founder of Ground Truth Initiative, and of the Map Kibera project. He is on the Board of the OpenStreetMap Foundation and President of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, having helped to facilitate the OSM response to the Haiti earthquake. He has travelled widely, organizing projects in India, Palestine, Egypt, Swaziland, and elsewhere.
Previously to this, he co-founded Mapufacture and worked on collaborative platforms, geo-web standards and various applications, with a wide spectrum of organizations from the UN and government agencies to anarchist hacker collectives.
President, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Codirector, Ground Truth Initiative
Mikel Maron is a programmer and geographer working for impactful community and humanitarian uses of open source and open data. He is co-founder of Ground Truth Initiative, and of the Map Kibera project. He is on the Board of the OpenStreetMap Foundation and President of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, having helped to facilitate the OSM response to the Haiti earthquake. He has travelled widely, organizing projects in India, Palestine, Egypt, Swaziland, and elsewhere.
Previously to this, he co-founded Mapufacture and worked on collaborative platforms, geo-web standards and various applications, with a wide spectrum of organizations from the UN and government agencies to anarchist hacker collectives.
